This estimate, within a dozen weeks of its making, would be reduced to fewer than one billion, on the word of individuals who made the law-required oaths.
There were no fewer than five thousand of these to shake the dust of labor from their feet.
The city of Ghadames presents therefore a most mixed and coloured population, there being but very few of pure Arab blood, and fewer still of fair complexions.
I have therefore fewer patients during the inexorable Ramadan.
Indeed, the fewer of these a traveller has, the better.
Still fewer question the probability of a Revelation.
There are fewer older towns in France than Senlis, thirty miles or so northeast of Paris, the center of the old "Island of France.
They did not want another African jaunt, with more taxes and fewer men to till the fields.
Sometimes there were more workingmen in dirty clothes, sometimes more youths and boys with their banners, sometimes more shouters and fewer actors.
Now, few that will, andfewer that can, Bend over a tub like pretty Nan.
Thomas thought, And in his own young eyes There were very few people quite so good, And fewer still quite so wise.
Soon there were fewerthan a score--then twelve only--ten!
As regards the length of a suit, a player's long suit is rather more likely to befewer than five than over five.
Novel Diseases When there are fewer prescriptions, and less thought is given to sanitary subjects, there will be better 175:6 constitutions and less disease.
Moreover, the fewer there were to know, the fewer the chances of the secret leaking out; and Jan was even more in dread of the Dutch Government getting wind of it than he was of the pirates picking up his trail.
Presently no fewer than three of the diabolical things laid their loathsome hold upon his right leg, below the knee, and began to haul it out through the door.
As the morning wore on, no fewer than five sails appeared on the horizon, but none came near enough even to excite a thrill of hope.
Very few people in Russia had been following closely the recent developments of the Far Eastern Question, and still fewer understood their importance.
If they did not, all the preliminary work had to be done anew by themselves--a task that few judges were able, and still fewer willing, to perform.
He has fewer horses and fewer servants, but he has still more than he requires, and his mode of life has undergone no perceptible alteration.
With great ingenuity they contended that the Communal system of land tenure had much greater advantages, and was attended with much fewer inconveniences, than people generally supposed.
Although the distance from the mouth of the creek to the town is considerably less than thirty miles, I passed no fewer than fifteen custom-houses established along its banks.
Of these captains that were then in Italy, and, as I have said, they were fewer in that time than they are to-day, the most famous and the most fortunate was the man who was known as Messer Griffo of the Claw.
It is given to few to be great poets; there have been fewer great poets than emperors since the world began.
Because of this, there are fewer w'women than warriors, though ideally their numbers would be equal.
Skin tones range from dark tan to dark olive, hair from almost white to not quite light brown, mostly straight though a few have wavy hair, evenfewer curly.
They claimed that there had been no drop in the number of applicants but that fewer Negroes were being accepted by Navy recruiters.
The marines experienced far fewer racial problems than either the Army or Navy during the war, but the difficulties that occurred were nonetheless important in the development of postwar racial policy.
Finally, he warned that with fewer segregated units to which black troops might be assigned, the racial imbalance was becoming more critical, and he asked for a deferment of the program's completion.
General Bradley cut to the point: if the Navy carried the day it would receive substantially fewer Negroes than the other two services and a larger portion of the best qualified.
If the Army netted more high scorers than average in any period, it would induct fewer men from the next category.
In less than one generation, in fewer years actually than the average sailor's service life, the Navy had made a complete about-face.
Well, good-night, little mother, you can always know that the fewer letters I write the more harmless time I am having, because I have less to tell.
One consolation you can have is that the more uninteresting and the fewer my letters are the more harmless my life.
The worshipers gradually increased in number until the crowd thronging the pavement could not be fewer than two hundred.
In the two consulates that were spared many lives were preserved, but it is said that "no fewer than six thousand unoffending Christians .
While epoch-making women occasionally appeared in the earlier period, they became fewer and fewer as the social order became more settled.
They therefore have fewer wives, the number being regulated by their power to support them.
There are above five million fewer women in India than men.
Some men, but fewer women, yielded to the pressure of the effort to destroy the Jewish religion by forcing the Greek pantheon, Greek games and theatre, and the Greek culture upon the Jews.
Herodotus is authority for the statement that there were fewer bald-headed people in Egypt than in any other country.
There is little or no difference in the style of the outer and inner garments, more or fewer being worn according to the state of the weather.
It may be surmised that we should have had fewer Indian troubles, had we never entered into any treaty with them.
In trying to keep out of the way of his enemies he kept climbing higher and higher up the mountain, for the higher he got the fewer enemies he found.
In the later trilobites the test is more compact, there are on the whole fewer body rings, as more of these have become fused into a tail which is therefore larger than that of the average tail of the Cambrian trilobite.
In South Wales the Silurian rocks are very similar to those of the Welsh borders, save that the calcareous deposits are fewer and thinner.
Fewer persons would fall into despair if their anticipations were, like a commercial company, "limited.
Rascality--refined or coarse--would have fewer adherents if society took as much trouble to secure that the rightdoer shall prosper, as it takes to render the career of the knave precarious.
He says that on Christmas Day there were no fewerthan seven hundred communicants from one regiment and four hundred from another, and the service was held in a ploughed field with a packing-case for the Lord's Table.
The fewer in the game, you see, the fewer to divide the Parker dollars.
The words "dearest aunt" occurred no fewer than six times in the course of the essay, its author being apparently reckless of the fact that it was costing him half a dollar a time.
But it was not equally satisfactory to the agricultural labourer, who was deprived of his customary employment (since sheep-farming required far fewer hands) and found no adequate compensation as yet in the industrial growth of towns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fewer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
